Star Samarkand
스타사마르칸트 Seuta Samareukanteu Samarkand is the ancient Silk Road city of Uzbekistan; two posts say 'Star' was added to the name to set the house apart from later shops that copied the Samarkand name.
Western · Jung-gu, 을지로6가
Compiled from 26 blog posts read in fullSources →
Star Samarkand is an Uzbek restaurant on Euljiro 42-gil, the Central Asian street behind Dongdaemun History & Culture Park station. Samsa and flatbread come out of a tandoor at the door; inside, people order shashlik skewers, plov and soups such as borscht from a tablet at the table and share them. The prices posts give most often are 8,500 won a skewer, 12,500 won for plov, 10,900 won for soups and 4,000 won for samsa; meals for two were recorded at 36,000, 40,400 and 50,000 won. Two posts say no alcohol is sold. We read 30 posts from 23 June to 14 October 2026, 26 of them from people who ate here; one was about a different shop across the street and was set aside. The registered address is Euljiro 42-gil 12, but every post gives number 14.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address서울특별시 중구 을지로42길 12, 1층 (을지로6가)12 Eulji-ro 42-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul
- Phone0507-1406-7834
- Typical spend₩2,000 – ₩15,900
- From the station3 posts say it is walkable from the station.
- Floor areaFloor area 65 m² · Status In business
When it opens
Of 21 posts: 10 wrote Daily 10:00–22:00, 5 wrote 10:00–22:00, 3 wrote Weekdays 10:00–22:00.
| Daily | 10:00–22:00 | 10 of 21 posts |
|---|---|---|
| No day given | 10:00–22:00 | 5 of 21 posts |
| Weekdays | 10:00–22:00 | 3 of 21 posts |
| Closed | Every other Tuesday | 19 of 20 posts |
1 other values
| Open | Daily | 10:00–23:00 2 of 21 posts last seen 2026-10 |
|---|
The values differ, but the periods they were written in do not overlap. This looks like a change over time rather than a disagreement, and the top row is the most recently reported. We did not confirm it with the restaurant.
What sets it apart
- The shashlik is slow. Nine posts say food took a long time, and all nine point to the skewers — one says they arrived when everyone was nearly full, another advises ordering them first. One post timed its photos: borscht at 1:44, shashlik at 1:51, plov at 2:09.
- Weekend lunch means a line. Seven posts waited, and the times they wrote down are 5, 5, 15, 20 and 20 minutes. One arrived at 1:13 on a Saturday and got handwritten ticket number 22; another, at 2pm on a weekend, found there was no list — you just stand in line. The one post that came at 11:20 on a weekday walked straight in. Two posts say overflow goes to an annex next door.
- Carrot kimchi comes free. Nine posts got something on the house — eight the shredded carrot salad with pickled onion, one a round of bread. One post had the carrot refilled. One post ordered it separately and paid 6,000 won.
- Shashlik is priced per skewer, but five posts say the minimum order is two; all five add that the menu allows a single skewer for solo diners.
3 more
- Fourteen posts comment on whether the lamb smells gamey; twelve say it doesn't. One enjoyed a noticeable lamb aroma, and one found a faint one that didn't bother them.
- Thirteen posts note that many of the diners are Central Asian; one put it at about 80 percent foreigners, and another watched locals lunching on samsa by hand.
- Ordering is on a tablet at each table, according to seven posts, with photos for every dish. One post found the tablet out of order on a first visit and used the paper menu instead.
What 26 bloggers said
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No gamey smell
We read all 26 in full. The most common claims are “No gamey smell” (12) and “Thick cut” (10).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
- Foreign customers in the room 13 of 26 posts
- Complimentary starter 9 of 26 posts
- Self-order screen 7 of 26 posts
- Takeout 5 of 26 posts
- A minimum number of portions on the first order 5 of 26 posts
- Reachable by transit 3 of 26 posts
- Beer served saying it is not 2 of 26 posts
- Takes reservations 2 of 26 posts
- Air conditioned 1 of 26 posts
- Free refills 1 of 26 posts
- Origin labelling posted 1 of 26 posts
- Review event 1 of 26 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Parking
4 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.
| Posts saying you cannot | 4 of 26 posts |
|---|
There is no parking of its own. Four posts say so, and the three that drove used the DDP car park, the Hyundai Outlet and a nearby mechanical garage, then walked. 'No parking' also appears in many copied info blocks.
Who came, and with whom
- Family visit 6 of 26 posts
- With a friend 4 of 26 posts
- Date 4 of 26 posts
- Came by car 3 of 26 posts
- Group visit 1 of 26 posts
- Came with children 1 of 26 posts
Where it is
We could not find this shop’s own listing on Naver Map, so the link searches for its Korean name around this spot instead.
From the station
3 posts say it is walkable from the station.
Getting inside
No post describes which floor the dining room is on or any stairs; only the '1st floor' in the address. That means nobody wrote it down, not that there is nothing to know.
No post says whether there is a step at the entrance or whether a wheelchair or stroller can get in. We don't know.
No post says where the toilet is. 'Separate men's and women's toilets' appears only in one copied info block, which we don't count.
No one mentioned: Second floor · In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · Toilet inside · Accessible toilet · Separate restrooms. That is not the same as there being none — it means we could not confirm it. Worth calling ahead, and do tell us: we will put it here.
How to read these posts
- Posts saying they paid themselves11 of 26 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way15 of 26 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 29 posts we gathered, 3 went up on a single day right after a TV spot and show no sign of a visit. They retell the broadcast, so we left them out of the counts.
We do not discard them. That a TV spot produced a burst of posts is itself something worth knowing about a place, and a star rating will not show it.
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | 1 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 6 |
| 2026-09 | 7 |
| 2026-10 | 11 |
What we do not know
- Prices vary a little between posts. Five give soups at 10,900 won, including menu photos from July and August 2026, yet two posts from September and October list borscht or lagman at 9,900 won, and one of them lamb shashlik at 7,000 won and cola at 2,000 won. Neither says when they went, so we can't tell whether prices rose or fell. One post also notes the Naver menu is about 1,000 won off from the shop's.
- All opening hours are copied from map listings. Eighteen posts give 10am to 10pm and nineteen say closed every other Tuesday, but none checked for themselves. Two give 11pm closing, one 11pm on Saturdays only, one 8pm, and one says closed every Tuesday.
- Two phone numbers circulate: ten posts give 0507-1406-7834 and three give 02-2279-7780. On reservations, one post saw a Naver booking sticker on the door and reserved-seat signs inside, and another found the back tables full of reservations.
- Comfort is split: one post found the cushioned seats comfortable, another found the chairs too upright. Seven posts call the room spacious.
- One post from June 2026 says the place was remodelled and is now much brighter and cleaner; it doesn't say when the work was done.
Sources (26)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 동대문 우즈베키스탄 음식점 스타사마르칸트 솔직 후기 | 중앙아시.... 2026-10-14 · 한글이의 맛집•여행 로그 | 리뷰어
- 동대문 맛집 스타사마르칸트 | 우즈베키스탄 음식 전문 중앙아시아거리 동역사 맛집 2026-10-13 · 냐룽이의 요기조기 · via Daum
- 서울특별시 여행 (스타사마르칸트 : '광희동 중앙아시아 거리'에 위치한 대한민국 최초의 실크로드 음식... 2026-10-12 · 여행과 역사속에서 행복을 찾는 사람 · via Daum
- [동대문, 동역사 맛집] 스타사마르칸트 중앙아시아 우즈베키스탄 음.... 2026-10-09 · 〰️맛따라 여행따라 지노따라〰️
- [스타사마르칸트] 동대문, 샤슬릭, 쌈사, 중앙아시아 음식점. 2026-10-09 · 내복돌이와 함께하는 소소한 일상과 사육일기
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- 서울 | 동대문역 | 중앙아시아음식 "스타사마르칸트" 2026-10-08 · log:
- 동대문 몽골타운 스타사마르칸트 이색적인 우즈벡 동역사 맛집 2026-10-07 · 싸미월드 · via Daum
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- [동대문역사문화공원역] 스타사마르칸트 웨이팅 20분, 보르쉬·플로.... 2026-10-01 · 룰루랄라 블로그
- 동대문 이색 맛집 | 우즈베키스탄으로 떠나는 한 끼 '스타 사마르칸트' 2026-09-27 · 행복한 삶을 위한 마케팅 한 스푼 · via Daum
- 동대문 ddp 맛집 우즈베키스탄 거리 스타사마르칸트 이색 후기 2026-09-26 · 노래하는 치타의 여행, 일상
- [동대문맛집] 블루리본 우즈베키스탄 음식점 ‘스타사마르칸트’ .... 2026-09-14 · 뽁픽의 세계여행
- 서울 나드리 동대문 놀 거리 DDP 근처 맛집 카페 솔직 후기 2026-09-11 · JinJIN_SIM님의 블로그
- 스타사마르칸트 동대문 우즈베키스탄 맛집, 가족 방문 후기 2026-09-10 · 정성스러운 하루
- [동대문 맛집] 스타사마르칸트 | 한국에서 맛보는 중앙아시아 전통 .... 2026-09-03 · 셍이랑 놀아요 :D
- 동대문 맛집 우즈베키스탄 정통 음식 스타사마르칸트 내돈내산 숯.... 2026-09-03 · z.on._e
- 동대문 맛집｜대한민국 최초 실크로드 음식점 스타사마르칸트 2026-08-27 · A little further,
- 동대문 중앙아시아거리 '스타사마르칸트' 실크로드 음식 전문점 내.... 2026-08-25 · 늘보의 데일리
- 동대문역 맛집 중앙아시아 거리 스타사마르칸트 내돈내산 웨이팅 .... 2026-08-24 · 사적인공간
- 한국 최초 실크로드 음식 전문점 스타사마르칸트 내돈내산 찐.... 2026-08-23 · 인생맛기행
- 동대문맛집 중앙아시아길 스타사마르칸트 내돈내산 2026-08-19 · 일상기록
- 서울에서 떠나는 이색 여행｜노보텔 앰배서더 동대문 호캉스와 중.... 2026-08-09 · 방방곡곡 문화충전
- 서울이색맛집 DDP 동대문맛집 중앙아시아 우즈베키스탄식당 스타사마르칸트 2026-07-22 · 노는게제일좋아 · via Daum
- 동대문DDP <스타사마르칸트> | n년째 가는 중앙아시아음식 맛집, 양고.... 2026-06-23 · 꿍로그
Of 337 candidate posts we opened 117 and kept 26 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.